<p>I have a 4.12 weighted GPA and have only taken 2 AP’s by Junior year, I’m taking 3 AP’s next year. I’m absolutely committed to this school, I can really imagine myself doing mechanical engineering at this school so that’s gotta count for something. I got a 610 on math and 470 on critical reading, but I think that will increase to 680 and 600 respectively in October.</p>
<p>By the way, does Cal Poly ED accept October SAT’s?</p>
<p>You should try for much higher on the SAT. Remember, you aren’t sending in an essay for this. All you have to show them are your grades and test scores. Engineering is like, the hardest school to get into, isn’t it? You might consider some sort of SAT classes, or at least going to the library and studying the SAT prep books.</p>
<p>The average stats for students accepted into Mechanical Engineering this year are 4.1 Cal Poly GPA, SAT:684 Reading, 725 Math,and 34 ACT. Cal Poly GPA is composed from 9th-11th grade, up to 8 semesters of weighted courses - the highest possible GPA is 4.25. October SAT scores are accepted. The sad truth is admission decisions are essentially formed by solely GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>Good luck on Early Decision, I’ll also be applying then for ME. I’m not going to hold my breath, judging by some of the near-perfect applicants who were turned down this year. ME is the most impacted major at Cal Poly, so if you are dead set on getting accepted, I would consider a less competitive engineering major, or another type of major altogether.</p>
<p>Actually what theChris said may be a good idea. It is a lot easier to change your major within the college of engineering so maybe you should apply for a less impacted engineering major then switch over to ME if you really want to get in.</p>
<p>Acceptance rates are certainly going to vary across majors but in comparison to regular decision, I think applying early will certainly boost your chances. I applied and was accepted for ED for architecture with a what was at the time a 4.0 UW, 5 APs completed by the end of my senior year (primarily maths and sciences<em>**), about 300 hours of Community Service, 31 ACT, 2010 SAT. Like I said, my stats my not be compliant with what the Engineering dept would be looking for but just to put things in perspective for anyone who is curious.
*</em>*They do this sort of point system when reading through your applications and being a polytechnic school, the more high level math and science courses you have taken, the better.
I wish y’all the best with ED! :D</p>
<p>I will take the October SAT and there’s a good chance I’ll get 1800-1850. Maybe 650 math and 600 critical reading. I am also taking the ACT and I think I will get between 24 and 26, maybe 28+ if I prep and the day goes well. I have few EC’s, two awards, varsity tennis, jv crosscountry and 150 hours volunteering.</p>
<p>And theChris, I highly doubt that the average ACT score for accepted ME students is 34, that is ABOVE 99th percentile, the level of UCLA and UCB. </p>
<p>And I will look into choosing a less impacted major, thanks guys. All I need is a good ACT and October SAT.</p>
<p>BY THE WAY!
All of the near-perfect students with super high grades and SATs are not going to doing early-decision. It is way too risky for them because ED is binding. This is what separates the difficulty of regular decisions to early decision, the applicant pool is much weaker, it’s going to be filled with people like me.</p>
<p>I received those stats by calling Cal Poly Admissions last month. Don’t shoot the messenger! I certainly hope you are right though…</p>
<p>Try both. Apply to ME Early Decisions and if you don’t get in, apply again Regular Decision maybe under a less impacted major.</p>
<p>Cal Poly also looks at the rigor of your classes… Especially for engineering, rigorous math classes are important. I think science too. Wished my daughter took Calculus BC her senior year but she opted for stats AP which didn’t help her at all but guess her heavy math load from 8th grade Geometry honors through 12th looked good. She also scored a 5 on Calc AB along with taking 7 APs. While she was heavily science and math oriented, her least favorite were English AP, Two history APs. My daughter is incoming freshman at Cal Poly for Industrial Engineering (not impacted). Not ED. I understand that ECs count from 1-10% of your application. Depends on major. Good luck!</p>
<p>Uh-oh I didn’t take any science AP classes, all I have are Calc, Gov, Econ, Lit, Hist and Programming. I am also glad that they don’t look at EC’s that’s my weak point.</p>
<p>Not sure if this is correct but given average ACT for engineering is 31 (97th percentile) then having a admitted ACT score of 34 (99th percentile) for ME is conceivable if you assume the engineering ACT average has a +/- ~4 percentile spread (with ACT 29 being 93rd percentile which is the average for matriculating engineering students last year). </p>
<p>[Student</a> Profile - Admissions - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo](<a href=“Cal Poly Admissions”>Cal Poly Admissions)</p>
<p>According to the actual Cal Poly SLO website, the average ACT score 26.8, 83rd percentile, 1215 SAT excluding writing and 3.84 GPA in 2010. It might have changed by now.</p>
<p>yea, if you look at the average for engineering in 2013, it changed. average GPA 4.08 and ACT 31, sat 1388/1600. see the link above.</p>
<p>OMG I looked the freshman applicants in general, I forgot about engineering.</p>
<p>This is really bad guys! The only thing that’s going to help me is early decision. My GPA is .04 above the 2013 average and that’s going to increase for 2014. And unless I study everyday for my ACT, I won’t be able to get close to a 31.</p>
<p>ALSO! Can you guys tell me which major within engineering is less or least impacted?</p>
<p>Your question about what engineering major is least impacted was discussed this previous thread.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/986700-least-impacted-engineering-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/986700-least-impacted-engineering-major.html</a></p>
<p>Mechanical engineering is extremely impacted. The admission for ME year was 20.8%. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that the average student applying for Cal Poly is in the 86th percentile (top 14% of students) for their school. </p>
<p>Cal Poly doesn’t have essays or teacher recommendations so essentially GPA and SA/ACT are the only way for comparing applicants.</p>
<p>So if you take only the top 20% of the top 15% of students (.21*14% = 3%) you are looking at ** the top ~3% of the students who are accepted to ME (97th percentile) **which is on track with the number users blindmonkey and the Chris reported: </p>
<p>“Not sure if this is correct but given average ACT for engineering is 31 (97th percentile) … for ME.”</p>
<p>“The average stats for students accepted into Mechanical Engineering this year are 4.1 Cal Poly GPA, SAT:684 Reading, 725 Math,and 34 ACT.”</p>
<p>*Engineering college stats reported by cal poly: (4.08gpa, 31 act, 1388 sat). ME stats are slighty higher than these. See quote above.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to discourage anybody from applying, but just trying to put confirm the facts. I was lucky to admitted to ME, and another freind of mine was in the bottom 25% of applicants and he got accepted too. If you have an undying passion for ME and love Cal Poly you should definitly apply! If possible get your SAT/ACT as high as possible for the best chances.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all applicants!</p>
<p>This is kind off topic but how do you open the CSU mentor application? I want to do it to get it over with and send it in on the first day it allows me, which is October 1st.</p>
<p>It doesn’t look like the application fall 2014 is open yet so hang tight.</p>
<p>OK last question before I ditch this thread, I know it’s impossible to switch majors at Cal Poly but exactly how easy is it to switch within the college of engineering? Will I lose any time or money? I think classes start on your decided major in fall of freshman year and you can’t switch until after your first quarter.</p>
<p>It’s not impossible to switch majors at cal poly during your first year and it is easier to switch within your college then out of it. You can apply for something like general engineering then switch into mechanical engineering after your first quarter if you have decent grades. You probably wont lose time because a lot of the classes are similar. The switch within the college of engineering should be simple if you have your cards lines up.</p>